News tagged with mammoth tusk

Ivory sculpture in Germany could be world's oldest

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 2008 excavations at Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany recovered a female figurine carved from mammoth ivory from the basal Aurignacian deposit. This figurine, ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Zed's dead: LA museum unearths ice-age mammoth skull

Excited archeologists in California are rubbing their hands: after three years' back-breaking work they are finally, painstakingly revealing the face of Zed, the ice age mammoth.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Extinct mammoth tusks fill elephant ivory ban gap

Stumped by a ban designed to save elephants from extinction, Hong Kong's master carvers turned to a long dead species that left thousands of tonnes of frozen ivory in Siberian mass graves.

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scans became a mammoth project

Lyuba was not typical of the subjects Jason Polzin examines with X-ray, CT or MRI machines at GE Healthcare.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0